A very variable plant, so far as size and habit are concerned. Drège's specimens from the Witte Bergen were collected in a cave, and represent an extreme shade form. They have been described by Nees (Fl. Afr. Austr. 148) as Podosæmum lachnanthum, var. humile. A. gymnostyla, Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 170 (Podosæmum gymnostylum, Nees, Ind. Sem. Hort. Vratisl. 1850, and in Linnæa, xxiv. 236. Mühlenbergia gymnostyla, Walp. Ann. iii. 753), is indicated by Steudel from the Cape of Good Hope; but it was described from a cultivated specimen of unknown origin, and Fenzl in Ind. Sem. Hort. Vindob. 1850, says it is identical with Cinna mexicana, Beauv.

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